Porto hotels and accommodations offer more than 180 rooms to health professionals

Several hotels and local accommodations in Porto will provide more than 180 rooms for health professionals, in order to “shorten travel” and avoid the risk of contagion with their families.

In a statement, the Municipality of Porto said, this Monday, that this “spontaneous” response came from a coordinated work with the various hoteliers and owners of Local Accommodation (AL) in the city.

“Many professionals in the health sector do not want to risk contagion from or to their families and prefer not to return home after a day at work. This is also a way to shorten travel and break times”, stresses the municipality.

According to the Porto Chamber, “more than 180 rooms” are already available to health professionals and “many more can be used”.

The autarchy also advances that it has not only been the entrepreneurs of the tourism sector “showing availability” and a “high civic sense”, but also the big companies of the city that has made the municipality reach “financial and logistical availability to help fight the disease, in an unprecedented show of solidarity “.

“The municipality of Porto coordinates and articulates availability with the hospital administrations, with which it has been working closely and permanently in areas such as the provision of personal protective equipment and the import of medical instruments from China, such as ventilators”, resembles the autarchy.

In Portugal, 331 people were infected until this Monday, but with no record of deaths, according to the daily bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).

Of the confirmed cases, 192 are recovering at home and 139 are hospitalized, 18 of which in Intensive Care Units (ICU).

The DGS bulletin reports 2908 suspected cases, of which 374 were awaiting laboratory results.

Of the people infected in Portugal, three recovered.

According to the bulletin, there are 4592 contacts under surveillance by health authorities.

Currently, there are 18 active transmission chains in Portugal, four more than on Sunday.

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, called a meeting of the State Council for Wednesday, to discuss the possible decision to enact a state of emergency.

Portugal has been on alert since Friday, and the government has put civil protection means and security forces and services on standby.

Among the measures to contain the pandemic, the Government suspended classroom activities in all schools and imposed restrictions on commercial establishments and transportation, among others.

The government also announced the control of land borders with Spain, with nine crossing points and exclusively destined for the transport of goods and workers who have to travel for professional reasons.

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